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This Nobel Prize winner just gave an extraordinary press conference

Philippe Aghion gave a rapid-fire tour de force on innovation, markets, and competition. On AI, he said past predictions of mass job destruction “...

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Richard Holden

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize still unlikely despite ceasefire

A ceasefire and hostage release are cause for celebration. But big questions remain about the rest of the Trump plan.

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Gideon Rachman

A zombie economy could be America’s future

Japan kept interest rates low for decades, creating thousands of “walking dead” businesses. This is now the danger for the United States.

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Allison Schrager

Why Albanese’s stability could be his undoing

Anthony Albanese leads the most stable federal government in two decades by drawing a line on internal political drama. But stability can cause its...

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Lidija Ivanovski

Why planning reform alone can’t solve the housing crisis

The real problem is the misallocation of housing created and reinforced by policies that entrench intergenerational wealth divides.

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Cathal Leslie

Did Chalmers just Trump the super sector?

Jim Chalmers “backflip” on super is nothing like it appears to be. The government just turned a zombie tax budget measure into $1.6 billion.

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Andrew Hobbs

MAGA muscle exposes weak point in rare earths opportunity

Anthony Albanese will talk co-operation on critical minerals with Donald Trump. But Australia is in a tough and competitive race to deliver.

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Hamas still holds Gaza hostage

Once the fighting in Gaza has concluded, it will be interesting to see how engaged with the Palestinian issue the government remains.

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Rodger Shanahan

Chalmers’ super tax backflip gives reform a second chance

Sensible tax reform, grounded in compromise and sound debate, paves the way for more reform.

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Robert Breunig

Backflip on super tax is a welcome victory for common sense

It’s Labor’s opportunity to face the music on their own fiscal mismanagement and stop relying on tax-by-stealth cash grabs to plug holes in the...

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The Afr View

The PM, not the Senate, drove the super backdown

Political fears ultimately forced Jim Chalmers to water down the super tax. It’s a lesson that when your own side tells you a policy is bad you...

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Phillip Coorey

The revolution reshaping one of the world’s largest pension funds

A former Future Fund investor aims to rewrite the rules on how the California Public Employees Retirement System manages money. Others may be...

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Jonathan Shapiro

Net zero carbon price and lower energy costs is possible in decades ahead

We can pay for lower electricity emissions without lowering our living standards – something that is now well and truly worth paying for.

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Alison Reeve

Labor needs a strategy to say where minerals bailouts stop

A coherent framework should be developed for deciding which industries and assets are genuinely strategic and get government financial support, and...

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Richard Holden

PM has his work cut out striking rare earths deal with Trump

Ideally the US develops a coordinated strategy with Australia to plug gaps in the global minerals supply chain instead of creating an end-to-end US...

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Hayley Channer

Is it now or never for Albanese’s US critical minerals deal?

Compared to copper and aluminium smelter bailouts, there is a strong strategic case to overturn Australia’s traditional reliance on comparative...

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The Afr View

Shield collapse is super’s $1.2b wake-up call

Why, after 35 years of reform, are financial services ‘entrepreneurs’ so easily able to get past investor protection laws policed by ASIC and APRA...

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Tony Boyd

Once hostages are returned, the hard part of Trump’s peace plan begins

Optimists cite what they see as key differences between the failed January ceasefire and today. While accurate, neither necessarily foreshadows...

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John Bolton

Why Enoch Powell’s ghost is haunting politics in the UK and Australia

The Conservative English politician was gravely concerned about the effect of uncontrolled migration by people from different cultures.

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Simon Heffer

Sitting week showed Australia’s going nowhere fast under Labor

The underwhelming proceedings in Canberra point to the Albanese government’s ongoing failure to formulate a substantial second-term agenda to fix...

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The Afr View

Will Trump’s plan give peace a chance in Gaza?

The US president is disliked by many, but the only reason the war stopped is because of America’s might, his distinct style and his willingness to...

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Joel Burnie

Like the bond market, this boomer is not OK about debt

Governments that rely on debt to pump up their economies – instead of the enterprising efforts of business and citizens – are seen as higher risk...

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Pru Goward

Heard the one about anti-woke comedians going to a festival in Riyadh?

Watching comedians who’ve spent years patting themselves on the back for “speaking truth to power” twist into pretzels to justify a Saudi payday...

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Jason Bailey

Labor must put the pedal down on EV road user charge

The sensible approach is neither to slam drivers with a rapid and underbaked tax, nor to push reform into the distant future. The government needs...

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Innes Willox

Starmer’s contortions on China have a bit of the Albo about them

An aborted spy case shows the UK prime minister is sensitive to criticism that sound commercial ties with Beijing link to his silence on matters of...

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Andrew Tillett

What the world can teach about reducing climate risk of underinsurance

The nation’s policymakers have a golden opportunity to apply over 100 years of experience and insights from around the globe.

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Alix Pearce

Four problems with Labor’s budget profligacy

In a geopolitically volatile world, we are only one crisis away from learning the hard way what the real cost of budget complacency might be.

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The Afr View

Waters blaming Labor for Manchester synagogue attack is an abomination

If, in 2025, Australians allow Waters to propagate such toxic logic, the precedent it sets will outlast her. Because once you start excusing...

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Nick Dyrenfurth

Unorthodox Trump secures his greatest foreign policy win

He talks of “America first”, but the US president’s personal touch and norm-busting network of aides shows his presence remains paramount in global...

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Andrew Tillett

Industry assistance back with a vengeance, with both sides up for it

While free marketeers clutch their pearls, separating the politics of saving jobs from the economic arguments is almost impossible.

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Phillip Coorey